Creating, Making, and Presenting involves students' creative and technical development; that is, their ability to use and manipulate media to create art forms that express and communicate their ideas and feelings.  Through these artworks, students provide evidence of achievement, both as a work is being developed and in its final form.  

Connecting Contexts of Time, Place, and Community focuses on evidence, knowledge, understanding, and valuing the arts in a variety of contexts.

Perceiving, Reflecting, and Responding is concerned with students' ability to respond critically to art works through increasing knowledge and understanding of, and appropriate responses to, the expressive qualities of art works.